“In the 2017 and 2018 games, they (CPP) may have no good fortune to win, unless they field good players, allow them freedom to use their skill, and make use of capability of players they buy from advanced countries.”

There is a tug-of-war between the two major parties in the forthcoming elections, even though one of them is legally dead. Both are in unchartered territories – doing what they have not done before. The CPP throw in carrot and stick to get voters to vote; they used to deter from voting those they suspect are opposition voters. At the other end, the CNRP “ghost” calls for an election boycott, which is its first.

It may not be intriguing that Kem Ley was not so confident the CNRP would partake in both the 2017 commune and 2018 national elections. His book, “Collection of Thoughts on Society and Politics”, published after his 10 July 2016 assassination, reveals critical reasons behind his doubt that the CNRP will last the two elections. In the book of 322 pages, positive ideas are in no less than 250 pages. For every critical issue Kem Ley offers solutions and recommendations. In some instances, like healthcare issues, he argues they need a revolution – reforms will no longer suffice. The book deals with necessary government reforms that seasoned analysts would conclude the Hun Sen government has neither desire nor audacity to carry them out. However, using a soccer game as a metaphor, Kem Ley argues the CPP could still win at fair and free elections if they made appropriate uses their resources and players’ skills.

But they don’t. And Kem Ley must sense it.

Hun Sen opts for a quick fix after the CNRP scares the pants off him at the commune elections. Though it does not win, it manages to make a deep inroad into the CPP regional power base. The elections outcomes confirm a conclusion by a Shaviv opinion poll commissioned by Hun Sen in October 2016 that, without drastic interventions, the CPP would lose the 2018 national elections. These interventions turn out to be: dissolution of the CNRP and making their leaders national traitors. Kem Ley’s doubt on the CNRP’s chance to contest the national elections is confirmed.

It is disbelieving that Kem Ley would support the upcoming elections – the kind that has already confirmed the status quo and goes against his entire thesis. He calls for a rule of law and change of leader. The whole book addresses issues that Kem Ley believes are vital for a national survival. He argues Cambodia is at risk of becoming the second Khmer Krom. He points out Cambodians are killing each other on the street. He notes a meltdown of regional family structures as citizens are compelled to move away from farms for work in cities and foreign lands. His extensive stays with grassroot people confirm they are suffering. The upcoming elections have no chance of bringing what Kem Ley longs for – a real change.

The book indicates Kem ley would campaign for the election boycott; and he would likely be assassinated for the second time. Then again, he is ready anytime to make the ultimate sacrifice for his nation while calling for his compatriots to stand up.

Ung Bun Ang

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Fake News You Can Trust

It is incredible how callous Hun Sen can be. He asks voters if they should embrace in bed a dead party or choose another party they love. A real-life example he cites is that a surviving spouse, no matter how old they are, will look for another partner. Mrs Bun Rany Hun Sen, take note and feel the pain or the freedom.

Anyhow, Hun Sen is a dead psychopath; he ignores the fact that he is the one who kills their beloved spouse or party and expects them to help him out.

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It may not be intriguing that Kem Ley was not so confident the CNRP would partake in both the 2017 commune and 2018 national elections. His book, “Collection of Thoughts on Society and Politics”, published after his 10 July 2016 assassination, reveals critical reasons behind his doubt that the CNRP will last the two elections. In the book of 322 pages, positive ideas are in no less than 250 pages. For every critical issue Kem Ley offers solutions and recommendations. In some instances, like healthcare issues, he argues they need a revolution – reforms will no longer suffice. The book deals with necessary government reforms that seasoned analysts would conclude the Hun Sen government has neither desire nor audacity to carry them out. However, using a soccer game as a metaphor, Kem Ley argues the CPP could still win at fair and free elections if they made appropriate uses their resources and players’ skills.--------------------This was why CNRP had Kem Ley killed and CPP and Mr. Hun Sen failed to protect him. Kem Ley was working for CPP and Mr. Hun Sen.

While he was criticizing the obvious corruption in CPP which everyone already knew, he revealed crippling secrets about CNRP. After all, he was in CNRP for some time so he knew the in and out within CNRP.

When Kem Ley split from CNRP, and started spilling out the beans from CNRP, CNRP had no choice but to silence him. And that's why Mr. Hun Sen kept hinting, "Think of who benefits more, who needs Kem Ley dead. (And that was CNRP.)"

The theory is interesting. If it were true, however, Hun Sen, his police, and his court would be all over the CNRP with evidence; and Hun Sen would not have to stall any investigations into the assassination.

Wrong, Hun Sen did not know who among CNRP ordered the hit on Kem Ley so he cannot prosecute the whole CNRP. In fact, the killer escaped quickly and Hun Sen had to use a substitute or else he looked like a fool failing to protect Kem Ley.

And that's why Sam Rainsy knew it. He knew the real killer and was so eager to expose Hun Sen's cover up. That's why Sam Rainsy adamantly demanded the raw footage of the security video to so that the real killer (hired by CNRP) captured in the video was different from the substitutes (hired by Hun Sen to take the blame).

In the last 30 or more, Hun Sen amassed a fortune in the billions, and yet Kem Ley put the estimate in the range of only 400 millions USD. Clearly Kem Ley was softening the amount of corruption in Hun Sen's part.

Kem Ley criticized both CPP and CNRP but if you analyzed carefully, his criticism against CNRP was more potent. That's why I suspect Kem Ley was Hun Sen's henchman, hired to pretend to join CNRP to disrupt CNRP from within. Kem Ley exposed a lot of corruption from within CNRP and severely undermined CNRP.

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